Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Winogrand

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

Garry Winogrand

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

Garry Winogrand

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Garry Winogrand

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

Garry Winogrand

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

Garry Winogrand

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Garry Winogrand

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

Garry Winogrand

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

George Eastman

Light makes photography. Embrace light.

George Eastman

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.

George Eastman

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

Federico Fellini

There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that's a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In fact, they are bandits, thieves of photography. (Statement after photographs were published showing Jackie Onassis sunbathing nude.)

Fay Godwin

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

Fay Godwin

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

Fay Godwin

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

Fay Godwin

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

Eve Arnold

I came to photography by accident.

Eve Arnold

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

Eve Arnold

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

Eve Arnold

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Eve Arnold

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Francis Bacon

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know...

Francis Bacon

Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.

Jeff Wall

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography,

George Bernard Shaw

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

George Bernard Shaw

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

George Bernard Shaw

What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

George Bernard Shaw

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Galen Rowell

My first thought is always of light.

Galen Rowell

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

Galen Rowell

My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.

Galen Rowell

When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.

Galen Rowell

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.